Children of John and Catherine (Doran) Fitzpatrick of County Tipperary

John Fitzpatrick married Catherine Doran 10 February 1872 in the Parish of Ballingarry, County Tipperary, Ireland. John was the son of Bryan Fitzpatrick, Catherine was the daughter of Pat Doran, and the witnesses were Joseph Taylor and Johanna Doran.1 While the family was often believed to be a large one (with more than a dozen...

Ethnicity Estimate Comparison Pie Charts…or DNA Doughnuts

Yesterday, in a guest post on the DNA Geek blog, Erik Schaefer used Excel pie charts as a fun way to visually compare different ethnicity estimates, with examples comparing paper records to DNA testing. I gave it a try with my own data. I was able to use Erik’s instructions pretty well, though on my...

Adding up indirect evidence – and grabbing all those bits of information

I love finding stuff like this. My husband’s grandmother, Dorothy (Keane) Burns, was listed in the 1930 U.S. Census as a little girl (age 5), niece of the head of household (Edmund Sweeney), and living at 523 West 135th Street in Manhattan, New York.1 Also in the household were: Ellen Sweeney, Edmund’s wife (age 36,...